5 Reasons to Backfill Roles
Learn the 5 top reasons why roles are backfilled, and why you might want to do that for your project or team.
Author: Elizabeth Harrin
Elizabeth Harrin is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management in the UK. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University, and several project management certifications including APM PMQ. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004 and has worked extensively in project delivery for over 20 years.
Elizabeth is also the founder of the Project Management Rebels community, a mentoring group for professionals. She's written several books for project managers including Managing Multiple Projects.
Sauce & Spoon: Tips for Your Google Capstone course
The Google Project Management capstone course is a lot of work. Here are some tips and examples from my assignments to help you succeed.
10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor
What makes a good sponsor? Read these 10 tips for being a good project sponsor and what they mean on projects today.
3 Exam Content Outline Domains for the PMP exam
In this article, we’ll explain what the exam content outline domains are and give you some examples of what you need to know about each one.
How to list project management skills on your resume
This is the guide you need on how to list project management skills on a resume. Includes what you should include, why and your next steps.
How to manage project assurance (with PRINCE2 guide)
Learn what the project assurance function does and how to work with it on a project. Click for tips!
A practical guide to quality management, assurance & control
Read this helpful guide to project quality management. Learn the differences between assurance, planning and control, with loads of tips for how to do them right!
How to handover a project on closure
You’ve delivered a great project – or at least made it to the end, exhausted! Now it’s time to handover the work because the project is closing. But what do you have to do? If you’ve ever ended up on a project where the work never seems to end… and the changes keep coming in……
15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs
You can read books to earn PDUs and I’ve created a list of 15 of my most recommended project management books to help you do so.
How to manage project tolerances (with PRINCE2® 7 guide)
Tolerances are an important part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. You need to have the authority and freedom of action to be able to change the direction the work is going in. However, the project sponsor is the person responsible for decisions that affect the project budget and the schedule,…
How To Close A Project In PRINCE2
If you aren’t using PRINCE2®, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. This article has been updated to be fully aligned to PRINCE2 7 (2023 edition). A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing…
PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained
Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about PRINCE2: the tailorable project management method that suits many types of projects and is surprisingly easy to use